Recently added articles from The Arkansas Historical Quarterly:
"Everybody says all those people . . . were from out of town, but they weren't": A Note on Crowds during the Little Rock Crisis
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN THE VICINITY of Little Rock Central High School during the desegregation crisis of September 1957 varied according to developments in the political and legal arenas.1 At their maximum of about one thousand early in September, when Gov. Orval Faubus used the ...
The Mechanics of Little Rock: Free Labor Ideas in Antebellum Arkansas, 1845-1861
Oct 01, 2008; ... IN LATE 1858, CHARLES O. HALLER, a longtime resident of Little Rock, wrote to the Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat, complaining about slaves taking jobs normally done by white workingmen and demanding that the Arkansas General Assembly take steps to curb the practice: "As artisans we suffer ...
Replicating History in a Bad Way? White Activists and Black Power in SNCC's Arkansas Project
Oct 01, 2008; ... STOKELY CARMICHAEL, CHAIRMAN of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1966-1967, derided what he viewed as the "media-driven" version of the civil rights organization's history, which suggested that "SNCC began as an 'integrated' group devoted to a mystical Christian vision ...
Arkansas Listings in the National Register of Historic Places: Park Hill: North Little Rock's First Suburb
Oct 01, 2008; ... PARK HILL WAS THE FIRST MAJOR SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT in North Little Rock and the second development in the Greater Little Rock area (Pulaski Heights was the first). Park Hill, which now encompasses more than 1,600 acres, was the brainchild of a shrewd businessman, Justin Matthews. Matthews began ...
The Eureka Springs Conference of the Arkansas Historical Association, 2008
Oct 01, 2008; ... EUREKA SPRINGS, "THE LITTLE SWITZERLAND OF THE OZARKS," hosted the sixty-seventh annual conference of the Arkansas Historical Association, held a month earlier than usual on March 27-29. This year's theme, "Arkansas: Land of Eccentricity," attracted a large crowd anxious to learn about the odd ...
From the Archives: The Arkansas Environment
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE 2009 MEETING OF THE ARKANSAS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION will focus on "natural resources, changes in the landscape, and the emergence of the environment as a political and economic issue." Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, has wide and deep holdings in ...
During Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006
Oct 01, 2008; ... During Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006. By Margaret Jones Bolsterli. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 144. Introduction, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.95, paper.) For historians searching for original ...
Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South
Oct 01, 2008; ... Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. By Anthony E. Kaye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. x, 365. Acknowledgments, introduction, maps, epilogue, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $34.95.) Histories of slavery in the antebellum South fill ...
Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron
Oct 01, 2008; ... Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. By Gary D. Joiner. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. xiv, 199. Maps, preface, epilogue, bibliography, index. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) In Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron, Gary D. Joiner ...
After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915
Oct 01, 2008; ... After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915. By John M. Giggie. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 315. Abbreviations, prologue, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. $74.00, cloth; $31.95, ...
Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis
Oct 01, 2008; ... Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis. By John A. Kirk. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 213. Foreword by Minnijean Brown Trickey, preface, acknowledgments, notes, index. $19.95, paper.) John A. Kirk, professor of U.S. history ...
Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Oct 01, 2008; ... Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. By Jeffrey Brandon Morris. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. xx, 464. Foreword by William H. Webster, preface, acknowledgments, appendices, afterword, notes, ...
Central in Our Lives: Voices from Little Rock Central High School, 1957-59
Oct 01, 2008; ... Central in Our Lives: Voices from Little Rock Central High School, 1957-59. By Ralph Brodie and Marvin Schwartz. (Little Rock: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2007. Pp. 211. Forewords by Ralph Brodie and Marvin Schwartz, acknowledgments, appendices, index. $33.95, cloth; $24.95, ...
Book and Media Notes
Oct 01, 2008; ... A. E. Bush and P. L. Dorman's History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials, originally published in 1924, chronicles the rise of the influential black fraternal organization founded in Little Rock at the end of the nineteenth century. A new edition of this key document ...
News and Notices
Oct 01, 2008; ... Due to editorial error, several key individuals were left out of, or misidentified in, the acknowledgments for last summer's article, "The Early Mills, Railroads, and Logging Camps of the Crossett Lumber Company," by O. H. "Doogie" Darling and Don C. Bragg. The authors thank the following for ...
Through a Heroine's Eyes: Elizabeth Huckaby and the "Lost Year"
Jul 01, 2008; ... ELIZABETH HUCKABY, VICE PRINCIPAL FOR GIRLS at Little Rock Central High School, spent most of the day on Tuesday, May 27, 1958, preparing for that evening's graduation ceremony. Though she had taught at the school since 1930, she had never worried more about commencement. Her diary entry for ...
The Early Mills, Railroads, and Logging Camps of the Crossett Lumber Company
Jul 01, 2008; ... FROM THE EARLIEST SMALL-SCALE LOGGING and milling operations to the multinational conglomerates of today, the timber industry has long shaped the social and economic history of the southern United States. Nowhere is this more true than in Crossett, Arkansas. Born of the axe and saw, oxen and ...
Brooks Hays and the New Deal
Jul 01, 2008; ... WITH THE ELECTION OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT in 1932, many farmers breathed sighs of relief. Nowhere was the hope for a "New Deal" for agriculture greater than among southern cotton producers, especially tenant farmers and sharecroppers. Since the 1920s, cotton growers had watched the price of ...
From the Archives
Jul 01, 2008; ... Randolph County Archives of Oral History THE RANDOLPH COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM HAS ANNOUNCED the opening of a local oral history archives with a collection of 119 items created by students at Black River Technical College. Dr. Gary Buxton, an instructor in English at the college, collected ...
There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior
Jul 01, 2008; ... There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior. By Judith Kilpatrick. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. x, 221. Acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, epilogue, notes, index. $29.95.) Wiley Branton used to tell a story that sums up how ...